diaphone

  1. Noun.  A kind of organ pipe.
  2. Noun.  A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
  4. Noun.  All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

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